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      Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!

      • Date: May 9, 2019
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.

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    3. Aerial photograph of the National Mall with the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt covering the four blocks west of the U.S. Capitol Building.

      Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2022

      • Date: November 3, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields thousands of questions per year.

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    5. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

      The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

      • Date: June 8, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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      Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

      • Date: July 7, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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    9. History and Chronologies

      • Date: July 5, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: As the National Museum of American History's new director, John Gray, begins his tenure we take a look back at those who proceeded him.

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    11. Link Love: 11/9/2012

      • Date: November 9, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    13. Aerial view of the National Museum of the American Indian from September 21, 2004, by Carl C. Hansen, Accession 11-019 - Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2004-53062.

      National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Marks 10th Anniversary

      • Date: September 18, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: NMAI opened 10 years ago with a large gathering of native peoples in Washington, D.C.

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    15. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

      • Date: June 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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    17. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

      Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

      • Date: May 1, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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    19. She Blinded Me With . . . Software?

      • Date: March 7, 2013
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: In this interview, Roberta Williams describes how she creates the story and graphics for a computer game, King's Quest.

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      American History in an Earthenware Teacup

      • Date: January 14, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.

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      & is for Ampersand

      • Date: September 8, 2020
      • Description: Today we honor the glyph with an incredibly long name that used to shorten an incredibly short word.

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